Prof Jade Munslow Ong J.MunslowOng@salford.ac.uk
Professor World Literatures in English
This article explores how Olive Schreiner utilizes politicized modernist aesthetics, specifically the manipulation of time through allegory and dream, to resist structures of empire. The claim that Schreiner’s work should be received and analysed as modernist builds on recent work in global modernist studies that views modernisms as multiple, and occurring across various temporalities and geographies, whilst responding to the drive in postcolonial studies to reshape modernism with an awareness of empire. Analysis of the repetitive dream cycles within and across Schreiner’s texts reveals how she disrupts the conventional chronologies and associated ideologies introduced by colonizers in South Africa in ways that can be interpreted as modernist. Beginning with close readings of the opening scenes in the novels Undine: A Queer Little Child (written 1870s) and The Story of an African Farm (1883), the article then considers the role of alternative temporalities associated with dreams in the short allegory “Three Dreams in a Desert” (1887), to suggest that Schreiner’s “dream time” offers a form of postcolonial resistance to the imposed “imperial clock time” of life under colonial rule.
Munslow Ong, J. (2014). Dream time and anti-imperialism in the writings of Olive Schreiner. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(6), 704-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2014.951201
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Aug 27, 2014 |
Publication Date | Aug 27, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Jul 29, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | May 24, 2017 |
Journal | Journal of Postcolonial Writing |
Print ISSN | 1744-9855 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 50 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 704-716 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2014.951201 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2014.951201 |
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